Backup and recovery of a virtual machine can be a daunting task. Veeam Backup and replication provides an efficient way to backup, restore and replicate data across multiple storage locations. Veeam Backup and replication has moved from just a backup tool to an availability tool. It enables backup of virtual, cloud and physical server backups [...]
"Will automation replace today’s system administrators? Well, it is the skilful use of these tools that will foster their credibility." Introduction Virtualization is meant to ease the life of a system administrator, physical and hardware infrastructure that created a lot of bottlenecks have been eliminated over the years. However, [...]
VMware Cloud on AWS is a unified Software Define Data Centre (SDDC) platform that integrates vSAN, VMware vSphere, and NSX virtualization technologies. It is optimized to run on a very flexible, dedicated, bare-metal Amazon Web Services infrastructure and offers a variety of AWS services including functionalities, elasticity, and security. The vSphere allows administrators to operate [...]
Asterisk is an open source framework to set up communications over IP phones. Asterisk software coverts the normal server for communications servers. It supports VoIP gateways, conference servers. Nowadays most of the businesses organisation and government agencies & call centres using Asterisk as their communications platform. Mainly asterisk voice quality is amazing with latest [...]
VMware NSX is as a product of the Software Defined Data Centre (SDDC) which provides a network virtualization platform that uses micro-segmentation to define fine-grained security in the data center. Virtualization with NSX duplicates Layer 2 to Layer 7 of the Networking model which allows for complex and multiple tier network topologies setups in [...]
vSphere HA is a recommended low-cost ESX’s feature that monitors virtual machines in a resource pool and detects downtime. In cases of downtimes, it powers on the virtual machines using resources on another host within the same cluster. The powering on is possible since the virtual machine disk (VMDK) are all kept within a [...]
Past December, South Korea-based Cryptocurrency exchange Youbit shut down its door after it was hit by a cyber-attack (for the second time in 8 months). Only a week back, a Japanese Cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck was hacked, costing it more than $534 million. These instances of cyber-terrorism are not just limited to the crypto-community. The number [...]
You're probably familiar with this icon and see it a lot these days. After all, it's one of the most trending things in business circles today. In case you're among the minority and have no idea about what the icon represents then here's a bit of useful information for you. The above icon is an [...]
Petya ransomware derived its name from the movie, Golden Eye, a 1995 James Bond flick. It was first discovered in 2016, as member of encrypting ransomware. Its primary targets are Microsoft Windows-based systems. It prevents Windows from booting by corrupting the master boot record and encrypts a victim’s hard drive’s file system through the [...]
Every wordpress user loves wordpress’ admin interface. Entire wordpress installation can be managed in one interface. Plugin installation, configuration, updates etc can all be managed from one single interface. What if there is a command line interface for the WP admin functions? That is what exactly provided by WP-CLI. Users with shell skills will love [...]
